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Old 06-08-2022, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser View Post
Most "so-called" farmers are NOT small farmers. They are more like factory farmers or small Corporations. They have business risks like crop failures, but they can take out crop insurance to mitigate against a really bad year. I know several farmers who harvest their crops in an AIR CONDITIONED huge piece of specialized harvesting equipment. Some large factory farmers use GPS technology to steer their harvesting equipment It can be pretty high-tech. For farmers like that much of their costs are in advanced, specialized equipment and the loans and interest expense to buy them. They would also have high diesel fuel costs.
..........So, their labor costs might be fairly low and their PROFITS fairly high. With such an operation a few SKILLED WORKERS could get raises and yet pass little or nothing in the way of costs along to the consumer.
Here is a Pew Research Center breakdown of who does what (2020) and if the "illegals" are going jobs Americans don't want. 7.6 million undocumented in the US. BTW, the IRS also shows undocumented pay a significant amount on income tax, SS, and Medicare taxes which they will never collect on, and so contribute to ours.

Most Americans say immigrants mainly fill jobs US citizens don’t want | Pew Research Center